Please dont cc me i am already on the list On Sunday 07 August 2005 09:49, nadarajan poniah wrote:

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With inputs from the gurus on this ml and from Sherlock, i have decided to make use of the Via-ITX board for the MP3 player on which i will connect a 64MB IDE Flash for the Shrinked Operating System and an LCD Display along with a Remote via the serial/Paralell connectors.

You must be joking. If a guru advised you to do that, you should question whether he is a real guru. You say you want to build an mp3 player right? The mini-ITX board is expensive and it would be a total absolute waste to use it as an mp3 player only. It would be much cheaper to buy a SqueezeBox which is already geared up as an mp3 player. http://www.slimdevices.com/ . All the features you could want is already there including LCD, remote. I think the price was around rs8000.

From where?

For the same price you can get far more with an i386.

And because you say you will only have 64MB flash, then what you are trying to build will still need a PC to host your mp3 collection. And that is of course the same as the SqueezeBox.

By flash he meant pendrive. If u use uclinux you will fit into 32mb, leaving 32 mb free. And u have 4 usb ports to connect a pendrive. Not forgetting that u could start with a 256mb pendrive, or add a hardisk, or cdrom. The Squeezebox is only slightly better than other embedded boards discussed IF available at your price in Mumbai cause it includes a vfd, box and psu.

If you actual reason was because you wanted to learn how to build a Linux embedded system, maybe yes. But even then, you would be better off getting a real embedded board with a MIPS or ARM cpu like something from ncoretech, beta comptronics or a local vendor.

Not unless you want the low power consumption and portability as the prime design goals.

rgds jtd